Porky's Poultry Plant
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Porky's Poultry Plant is a 1936 Looney Tunes
cartoon directed by Frank Tashlin
. The music was composed by Carl Stalling
. It was released on August 22, 1936. It is most noted for its dramatic camera angles and filmic techniques typically seen in live-action movies, something Tashlin specialized in.
is running a poultry plant named Porky's Poultry Plant. First, chickens, geese and ducks come out for a bright sunny morning. One little chick is trying to get some chicken feed, but everywhere he goes all the other chickens devour them and soon Porky winks at the little chick breakfast, Porky pretends to throw chicken feed but gives it to the chick, making him fat and all the other chickens are jealous and angry at him. Soon, Porky is weeping while looking at sad chicken-hawk kidnapping photos, due to the chicken-hawk capturing his chickens. Soon, a real chicken-hawk shows up and every bird hides except the little chick. When the chicken-hawk is gone, one chicken realizes one of her chicks are gone. Porky and all the birds see that it is the little chick that has been kidnapped by the chicken-hawk. Porky goes on his Air Force airplane and tries to shoot the chicken-hawk to get the chick back. Later, other numerous chicken-hawks go after Porky and the little chick. Soon, the chicken-hawks turn the tables on Porky by breaking away his airplane gun. Then, the main
chicken-hawk holds Porky while other chicken-hawks bite him on the tail. Porky manages to get the little chick back and the chicken-hawks die of lung disease when Porky speeds up his airplane's gasoline into the chicken-hawks and when the hawks fall down,the chickens dig a hole to bury them, making Porky and the chickens the winners of the battle.
Looney Tunes
Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and was Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series. Since its first official release, 1930's Sinkin' in the Bathtub, the series has become a worldwide media franchise, spawning several television...
cartoon directed by Frank Tashlin
Frank Tashlin
Frank Tashlin, born Francis Fredrick von Taschlein, also known as Tish Tash or Frank Tash was an American animator, screenwriter, and film director.-Animator:...
. The music was composed by Carl Stalling
Carl Stalling
Carl W. Stalling was an American composer and arranger for music in animated films. He is most closely associated with the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts produced by Warner Bros., where he averaged one complete score each week, for 22 years.-Biography:Stalling was born to Ernest and...
. It was released on August 22, 1936. It is most noted for its dramatic camera angles and filmic techniques typically seen in live-action movies, something Tashlin specialized in.
Credits
- Supervision: Frank TashlinFrank TashlinFrank Tashlin, born Francis Fredrick von Taschlein, also known as Tish Tash or Frank Tash was an American animator, screenwriter, and film director.-Animator:...
(credited as Frank Tash) - Animation: Don WilliamsDon WilliamsDon Williams , is an American country singer, songwriter and a 2010 inductee to the Country Music Hall of Fame. He grew up in Portland, Texas, and graduated in 1958 from Gregory-Portland High School. After seven years with the folk-pop group Pozo-Seco Singers, he began his solo career in 1971,...
and Volney WhiteVolney WhiteVolney White was an American animator and director active in the late 1930's and early 1940's. He worked at Romer Grey Pictures, Ltd which was launched in the spring of 1930, in Altadena, California, just north of Pasadena as studio supervisor... - Musical Direction: Carl StallingCarl StallingCarl W. Stalling was an American composer and arranger for music in animated films. He is most closely associated with the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts produced by Warner Bros., where he averaged one complete score each week, for 22 years.-Biography:Stalling was born to Ernest and...
Synopsis
Porky PigPorky Pig
Porky Pig is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. He was the first character created by the studio to draw audiences based on his star power, and the animators created many critically acclaimed shorts using the fat little pig...
is running a poultry plant named Porky's Poultry Plant. First, chickens, geese and ducks come out for a bright sunny morning. One little chick is trying to get some chicken feed, but everywhere he goes all the other chickens devour them and soon Porky winks at the little chick breakfast, Porky pretends to throw chicken feed but gives it to the chick, making him fat and all the other chickens are jealous and angry at him. Soon, Porky is weeping while looking at sad chicken-hawk kidnapping photos, due to the chicken-hawk capturing his chickens. Soon, a real chicken-hawk shows up and every bird hides except the little chick. When the chicken-hawk is gone, one chicken realizes one of her chicks are gone. Porky and all the birds see that it is the little chick that has been kidnapped by the chicken-hawk. Porky goes on his Air Force airplane and tries to shoot the chicken-hawk to get the chick back. Later, other numerous chicken-hawks go after Porky and the little chick. Soon, the chicken-hawks turn the tables on Porky by breaking away his airplane gun. Then, the main
chicken-hawk holds Porky while other chicken-hawks bite him on the tail. Porky manages to get the little chick back and the chicken-hawks die of lung disease when Porky speeds up his airplane's gasoline into the chicken-hawks and when the hawks fall down,the chickens dig a hole to bury them, making Porky and the chickens the winners of the battle.
Debuts
- This was Frank TashlinFrank TashlinFrank Tashlin, born Francis Fredrick von Taschlein, also known as Tish Tash or Frank Tash was an American animator, screenwriter, and film director.-Animator:...
's first cartoon with Warner Brothers as a director. He had briefly been an animator with the studio in 1933, but left after a dispute with Leon SchlesingerLeon SchlesingerLeon Schlesinger was an American film producer, most noted for founding Leon Schlesinger Productions, which later became the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio, during the golden age of Hollywood animation.-Early life and career:...
over rights to a comic strip Tashlin had created. He would stay with the studio until 1938, departing to become a writer for Disney, but would return once more in 1943. - This cartoon also marked the debut of Carl StallingCarl StallingCarl W. Stalling was an American composer and arranger for music in animated films. He is most closely associated with the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts produced by Warner Bros., where he averaged one complete score each week, for 22 years.-Biography:Stalling was born to Ernest and...
as musical director. He came to Warner Brothers from the Ub IwerksUb IwerksUb Iwerks, A.S.C. was a two-time Academy Award winning American animator, cartoonist, character designer, inventor, creator of Mickey Mouse, and special effects technician, who was famous for his work for Walt Disney....
studio, and would stay for over twenty years.